The North launched an intercontinental ballistic missile late last month, a missile Kim Jong Un and his regime says can reach any target in the continental United States.
The U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said there should be discussions over the safety of sending American athletes to the Korean Peninsula for the Winter Olympics amid North Korea tensions.
Speaking with Fox News on Wednesday, the ambassador said there’s an “open question” on sending athletes to the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in February.
“Those are conversations we are going to have to have, but what have we always said? We don’t ever fear anything,” Haley said. “We live our lives, we use our freedom, we have that.
“Certainly that’s the perfect opportunity for all [athletes] to go and do something they’ve worked so hard for. What we will do is make sure we are taking every precaution possible to make sure they’re safe and to know everything that’s going on around them.” the ambassador said.
Haley’s comments came the same day the North said that nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula has become a matter of when, not if, as it continued to lash out at a massive joint military exercise between the United States and South Korea involving hundreds of advanced warplanes.
